Microsoft's Data Visualization Software, PivotViewer, Is Now Available

Live Labs, led by Gary Flake (check out our interview with Gary here), is one of the more interesting teams at Microsoft. They're also responsible for PhotoSynth, a sort of Google Street View taken to the next level--it stitches together user-generated photos seamlessly to create a 3D tour of an area.

PivotViewer is a key development for Microsoft Silverlight, a web app framework similar to Adobe Flash. PivotViewer, when it was announced by Flake at a TED conference in February, brought the...